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City of God
16 curated works.
Urban isolationAfter-hoursPowerLonging
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Routes through City of God

16 works selected across all media.

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Books that echo City of God
The City & The City
Books
The City & The City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
The Emerald City of Oz
Books
The Emerald City of Oz
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and power.
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Los Angeles
Music
Los Angeles
Carries a strong pull into film through power and urban isolation.
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Sound of the City (Nature 2.4)
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Essays
The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and modernity.
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Essays 1980s
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau that examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own. It was originally published in French as L'invention du quotidien....
RitualUrban isolationModernityResistance
High Maintenance
Television 2010s
High Maintenance
High Maintenance is an American anthology comedy-drama television and web series created by ex-husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. The show follows The Guy, a cannabis courier, as he delivers his product to clients in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Each episode focuses on different charac...
PowerUrban isolationSurveillanceAfter-hours
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Books 1990s
The Rings of Saturn
A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.
MemoryPowerMigrationFolklore
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Music 2000s
Sound of the City (Nature 2.4)
NatureUrban isolationAfter-hoursLonging
The City of Lost Children
Film 1990s
The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...
Urban isolationAfter-hoursLongingMemory
We Own This City
Television 2020s
We Own This City
We Own This City is an American crime drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
PowerUrban isolationSurveillanceAfter-hours